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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
The Interstate Commission.

NEW ORLEANS. May 2.-The Inter
State Commission met here to-day.
Judge Cooley, in opening the proceed
ings, said: st may be well to say at
the outset that the scope of our author
ity in the premises is very much linn
tied, and that we do not purpose to go
beyond it. Our investigations are I'M
der the act, but they are not for any
purpose of questioning the propriety,
justice or eXpediency of that legisla-
ton. On the other hand all that has
been settled for us, and we are here
simply for the purpose of determining
the question, whether in pursuance of
that legislation we shall in certain
isolated cases, which have been
brought to our attention, make ex-
ceptional orders which shall give relief
in these cases from the ordinary opera
tiOns of the law. That is all we pro-
pose to do and all we have any
authority to do The Commissioners
then heard a large numbers of petit
tions for and circumstances against the
enforcement of Sec. 4, of the law.
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WashingtOn Etching.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-Assistant In
dian Commissioner Upshaw and H.
G. Osborn, Clerk in, the Indian Office,
left the city this morning with the
Senate subcommittee appointed to
investigate the Indian tradeships.
THE CENTRAL RESERVE CITY.
The comptroller of currency has de-
signated Chicago as the Central reserve
city under provisions of an act passed
at the last session of Congress.
THE DEBT STATEMENT.
The following is a reorganization of
the debt statement issued to-day; in
terest bearing debt, principal 81 ,094, :
678, 712; interest IS, 780, 656; total 81, )
1O3 ,459 1858; total cash in the Treasury
as shown by the Treasurer's general
account $3.50. Jos, 1896.
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ADouble TragedY.

ribIe tragedy occurred last evening at
Nicollville, st. Lawrence county.
Chas. Morrow, a resident of that vii
lage came home intoxicated and at the
supper table began abusing his wife.
Many times lately Mrs. Morrow has
been obliged, as last night, to flee from
the house, fearing violence. Her hus-
band followed her out on the street
and drawing revolver shot her in the
back of the neck as she ran. He then
placed the revolver to his own head and
sent bullet through his brain. Mrs.
Morrow died within an hour and the
husband died several hours after.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 3.-The
daily mail of the Interstate Commits
sion continues to be very bulky. Sec
rotary Mosely to-day received COM
munication addressed to the Commits
sioners by the proprietors of hotels,
boarding houses and eating houses in
the city of San Francisco, representing
that the prices of provisions in that
city had been enormously advanced by
dealers therein, alleging in Justification
thereof, increased rates of transporter
ton referable to section of the Inter-
State Commerce Law. The increased
cost of the neceSsarieS of life inflictS
unusual and serious hardships upon
our business, and we therefore pray
for such relief as may be within the
province or clemency of your honorable
the proprietors of about dozen hotels
and about fifty restaurants and board
ing houses.
POSTAL CHANGES.
The following order has been issued
by the PostmaSter-Genera
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May 2, 1857
Ordered, that on and after this date,
articles of every kind and nature which
are admitted to the United States do
nestle mails shall be admitted to mails
exchanged between the United States
and the United States postal agency at
Shanghai, China, subject, however, to
the following rates of postage, which
in all cases shall be fully prepaid:
First class matter 5 cents for
each half ounce or fraction of a half
ounce. Postal cards cents each. Second
and third-claSS matter and samples of
merchandise not exceeding ounces in
weight, one cent for each two ounces
or fraction of two ounces. Fourth
class matter, one cent for each ounce
or fraction of an ounce; registration fee
10 cents. No additional charge for re-
turn receipt. Ordered, further, that
articles other than letters in their usual
and ordinary form shall never be closed
against inspection, but must be so
wrapped or enclosed that they may be
readily and thoroughly examined by
postmasters and custom officers.
(SlgHedl WILLIAM I. Villas.
Post Master General.
RESIGNATION RENDERED.
VIM. b. Montgomery, private secre-
tary to the Commissioner of Patents,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect on the 18th inst, to enter the
customs service at Detroit, Michigan.
THE SWAMP LAND INDEMNITY.
The Court of Claims yesterday rem
dered decision in the case of the
State of Louisiana against the United
States. This was a suit brought to re-
cover $4,000 swamp land indemnity,
and per cent funds which had been
offset against like amount due the
Government on direct tax levied in
1864. The court held that the tax was
not debt of the state, but of the land
owners against whom it was assessed,
andconsequently could not be set off
against the debt due the state.
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DaInagIng Freshet.

FAIRFIELD, Me-, April 30.-The
greatest freshet since 1859 prevails
here, and the water is still rising
rapidly. The Bulkhead, at Somerset,
is gone, taking with it S26, 600 worth of
logs. A big jam from Carratunk went
bridge has started and unless held the
other bridges will be endangered.
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BLACK LIST.
AAAAS'AA $1,000
Chicago Saloons and Gamblers on the
Black List.
A Cook County Boodler Returns
$1,000 of Stolen Funds.
The Wall Paper Pool Dissolved and
Prices Will Tumble.
Kansas Comes to the Front With Ex-
eellent Crop Prospects.


CHICAGO, May 4.-Twenty-three
black listed saloons were closed by the
police yesterday. The total black list
for the city stood at 27O last evening.
Gamblers will be given until the 18th
OF this month to close I'D.
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Pool Broken.

NEW YORK, May 4.-The Times
says: The wall paper pool has been
abandoned and the price of that very
necessary commodity promises to take
tumble of about 25 per cent next
spring. Twenty-one of the largest
firms in the country are members of the
American Wall Paper Manufacturers
association. The association still re-
mains, for it is an incorporated body,
but all attempts to continue pooling
arrangements have been abandoned
and the commissioner, Chas. II. Hay
den of Boston, has resigned.
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Rioser Chilly.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 3.-The jury
with initiating riot at the Milwaukee
garden last May, brought in verdict
of guilty at $3.50 this morning. The
counsel for the defense moved for a new
trial on the ground that the counsel for
the prosecution Influenced the jury by
instructing them during the adjourn
mentS of the trial.
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AtcfiSOn 20 Omaha.

OMAHA, May president Strong of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road was in town yesterday to confer
with local capitalists in regard to ex-
tending his road from Atchison to
Omaha. The scheme. it is said, will
probably be carried out.
ST. Smith, general superintendent Of
the Union Pacific, has resigned to take
similar position on the Denver & Rio
Grauda
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;, KANSAS, THURSDAY. NAY /. 1887

and valid. In doing this 1 but follow
ed the written opinions of such emf
nent lawyers as Hon. VIM. F. Evarts,
Hon. Noah Davis. Hon. Thos. Bayard.
w. w. Mcfarland and Hon. Judah P.
Benjamin, all of which The Supreme
Court has confirmed by IFS decision.
Very Truly,
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DOTS AND DASHES
A Fatal Saw Mill Explosion Near Pa
ducah, Kentucky.
Loss Of Life OccasiOnOd by a Tow
Boat Blowing Up.
The Canadian Railroad Opening an
Eastern Outlet.
A CONGREGATION this Morning at Lou
isVll e.


Special TO The NHws.
TOPEKA, May Geo. T. Nicholson,
assistant, was this afternoon appoin-
ted General Passenger and Ticket
Agent on the Santa Fe railroad to sue
coed w. +. White.
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SIauphaered CattIa.

CHICAGO, May 4.-During the past
week four hundred animals have been
slaughtered by the direction of the
live stock authorities and out of this
number seventy-five clearly authenti-
Gated cases of pleuro pneumonia were
discovered. No disease has been dis
covered at the stock wards thus far.
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Buried Tndera slide

ST. LOUIS, May "a special from
men were engaged in loading gravel
train on the Gulf, Colorado s. Santa Fe
railroad when bank caved in, bury
ing all the men. One man was crushed
to death and four others were badly in
inFod
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to abolish the payment of commissions
to agents, policy the Western roads
had steadily resisted. The Western
roads, he says, viii retaliate on Mon
day by compelling the Trunk lines to
show cause in the courts why the
Trunk lines should not furnish tickets
as before. The Western roads will
also appeal to the Interstate Commits
sion, claiming discrimination is being
made contrary to the provisions of the
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Noody's plan Of EVangeIizatIOn

CHICAGO, May 2.-Mr. d. L. Moody
was present at the meeting to-day of
Presbyterian clergy. He told them
about his project of city evangelization.
Clair Streets he proposes to erect a
training school for women city mis-
sionaries. Young men Will be provid-
ed for elsewhere. Mr.. Moody has
S250,0OO subscribed for the purpose,
$50 900 of which will go into the build
ing and $4,000 will be invested as an
endowment. The school will accomo-
date 100 girls
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SAN Francisco, May Subjective
]. N. Thatcher of Wells, Fargo & Co.
sent from here to Tucson to trace the
Papago train robbers has sent the fol-
lowing dispatch: "Tucson-No tangi-
BILE clue to the robbers. The clue here
has been exnlOded
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LETTER LIST.

List of letters uncalled for and remaining In
the postoffice at Emporia, Kansas, for the
week ending May 4, 1881. Please give the date
OF advertisement when calledfor:
Afeffler, Miss Louisa Gray, John
Bailey, Ephraim HartZell, Harry J-3
Bishop, John Jacobs, George
Comstock, A K Pursley. Sherman
Duncan,
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ResIgnatIon Aecepted.

DENVER, May AIT the annual
meeting Of the Board of Directors OF
the Denver x Rio Grande Railroad the
resignation of President w. S. Jackson
was accepted, and David II. Moffat, Jr.
President of the First National Bank
IN this city, was unanimously chosen to
succeed him.
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A SAD DEATH.

Miss Maud Ross, aged 16 years, Z
months and Is days, died Tuesday
night at sos Merchants street of obstruc-
ton of the bowels, after an illness of
five days.
The deceased young lady was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ross, who
came to this place from Kansas City.
They are originally from Fort Wayne,
Indiana, having left there last Deem
Der. Mr.. Ross was taken sick the day
| after their arrival here, Monday, April
Is, and has been confined to his bed
ever since then. On last Friday Miss
Maud was taken suddenly sick and con-
tinued quite low until Tuesday, when
she seemed to rally and was able to sit
Upduring the evening. About midnight,
however, she became much worse and
in half an hour passed away.
IAN autopsy was held Wednesday by
Drs. Page and Biddle, who discovered
that the sudden death was caused by
an obstruction, or telescoping of the
bowels.
| The sad death is great blow to thu
parents and friends of the young lady
who was dearly beloved by all who
knew her. He winning ways and
sweet nature made for her awide circle
of friends, with whom the NEWS joiI
in extending sincere sympathy to the
bereayed parents and relations. Cor
ing as they do to new county to make
a home, parting with old friends anC
dear associates, they doubIy feel tn,
loss of their darling Maud, whose cheer
fulan unselfshness nature has Lighted
their labors and made their lives pleas
ant. Death is indeed a sad greetinj
for them in their new home and the,
have the heartfelt sympathy of the en-
tire community.
1 Yesterday seventeen new fat car
passed through the city for the Cole
RADIO Midland Railroad. They wer
: from the st. Charles, NO., car works
and were frst-cIass material through
out, and provided with the latest pateI
: appliances. The road is securing on
} first-class rolling stock.
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DEATHS WEAPONS.
Mrs. Martin Administers Rough on
Rats to Herself and Children.
An intoxicated New Yorker Kills
Himself and Wife.
Railroad Laborsrs Buried Under 8
Land Slide
Coal Miners Demanding a Ten Per
Cent Increase.
Violent Wind Storms in the North
east.
Took ..Rough ON Rats

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May ga
horrible tragedy occurred at a farm
house two miles south of the city last
night. Chas. Martin, a young farmer
% years old, has not lived happily with
his wife. and last night, while her hus-
band was temporarily absent, she gave
Rough on Rats to their two young
children and then swallowed a dose
herself. The oldest child died and the
mother and the other child were in a
precarious condition at last accounts.
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ru.f Oneu .heRooE..

NEW YORK, May Fudge Donohue
rendered a decision, ordering the St
Louis & San Francisco Railroad Co.
to allow E. L. Oppenheim & Co. to
inspect their books.
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All On Board Lost.

HALIFAX, N. S., May 4.-The steam:
er John Knox, Captain Brady, from
Glasgow to Montreal, foundered at the
| channel, New Foundland, yesterday.
All on board were lost.
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Pierced with a stIIIeto.

ST. LOUIS, May ga special from
Dallas, Texas, says: M. J. Mulligan,
farmer, became engaged in an alter
cation with Emanuel DiaZ, Mexican
tamala vender, and in the fight which
ensued Mulligan was pierced with a
stilleto.
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Rain fn Texas

CHICAGO, May ga special from Fl
Worth, Texas, says: Reports received
from thirty-two points show that coz
pious rains have fallen within the past
twenty-four hours throughout northern,
central and western Texas, extending
north into the Indian Territory, west
to Mexico and south beyond Austin. In
some places in this territory not enough
rain has fallen at any one time within
eighteen months to settle the dust. Re-
ports indicate an average of eleven
hours hard rain. In several localities the
rain was preceded by terrific wind
storm and many outhouses were de-
molished and few residences are re-
ported wrecked, with some people
hurt. No one was killed and $50, 600 will
cover all minor losses. A careful
watch of the rain reports show. that
there are now only two small sections
| in all Texas, both in the eastern part
of the state, where rain has not fallen
within the past thirty days, and the
sections referred to can't be said to be
suffering with drouih, as they have
had copious rains during the winter
Cattle and sheep throughout the STATE
were never in a better condition, and
the prospect for cotton is favorable
while wheat and oats are a failure
where the drouth was most severe, but
the increase of acreagein other sections
will bring the yield up to the average
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NEW YORK, April 30.-The Tribune
will print the following letter tO-mor-
row, which explains itself:
No. 1. Broadway, New York, April
%, 1SS7.-Editor of the New York
Tribune, Dear Sir: Ny attention has
been called to certain statements to the
effect that had profited by the recent
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States in what is known as the
Maxwell land grant case. In answer
to these statements, and with a view
to correct them, I beg to say that the
decision referred to did not profit me
directly or indirectly In any way. /
never owned, directly or Indirectly
any interest whatever In the
Maxwell grant. I was not q
party either to its sale or purchase
by its foreign owners. Nv only con-
nection with the grant was that Oh
attorney for the Maxwell Land Grant
Company that bought it. never sus
tanned any other than professional re-
lations with the company or property
except that was nominally president
of the company for few months. IN,
decision of the Supreme Court is Il
one sense professional triumph be
cause in the early history of the com
pany that purchased the property.
defended the title in the court a
] Washington, claiming that it was gOos
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WATERFOWL, n. Y. April so. =
Julius Faherback, Sergeant of Com
pany G, 18th United States Infantry,
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Our esteemed friend on the sunny side
of the street now spells it ''coptempo-
rary" 1t took Us six months to prove 10
him that the IN" was correct, and now
he assumes it with . very careless grace.
---1ade1.
BY dear boy, to saJ that you had
proved to ps that . plus2 makes would
not sound whit more ridiculous. We
never said or intimsted that ecatempo-
rery WIS not correct. We hars die
tiopsry What you resiiy did do was to
h. to prove tina. there Was no such
word as coscmporarv, but couldn't very
well make oat a case with "Webster s
Unabridged" the standard authority. If
we sometimes assume contemporary with
q careless grsce" it is simply because
wc think it better Euglish-an opinion
VIC always held. II we write it cotempo-
rsry ii is because it is handler, Just a.
don't" is often used in plsce OF do
net '--psitectiy correct. though no. as
elegant.
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The veyd;ct Iinsnls,,on7.

w. D. s,,lt Druggist BipPoa, Ipd-.
testiaes: ~ caa reeomena Electric
Bitters as the very best. Every bottle
sold has given relief in every case.
One man took six h,>ttles, and was
cured Of rheumatism of 10 yeara'
standing" Abraham Hare, druggist
Bcllyiile, Ohio, anirms: "rhs best
selling medicine / have over handled
in my 30 years' experience, is E!eo
tric Bi!tera." Thousands OF others
have added their testimony, SO thai
the verdict is unanimous that Electric
Bis.ers 60 cure al disease. OF the
Liver, !Lidneye or Blood. Only a
haIi dollar 4 hoy1le at 4. Z. hs,ller's IsI
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w,.cxiNn,s s.n,aa eAita.

The res, sal4a In ,as woslt. Ser ruts.
Bruises, eofea. Ulcers, ss., REsusn,
Fever Sores. Tcuer, Chapped LANDS
ChNhlAins. Corus, and ali Skin Esup-
tioIf, and positively cures pi;cs or no pay
required. II is guaranteed 10 givo per.
feet Satisfaction or money refunded.
Pres g, cents PSF boz. Fer aeie By 3
Z, Iiilley.
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Eso,temsn,In rexae.

Great Excitement hss been caused IA
the vicinity OF Paris, Texas. by the re-
Inarkshle recovery of Mr. J. Z. Coriey.
who was &c helpless he could not turn in
bed or raise his head; everybody said he
was dying OF consumption. A trial bot
tie OF Dr.. Kings Ncw D!scovery wac
sen, him Finding relief, he bought 6
large bottle aud box OF DR. King's New
Lite P.l.s; by tbo time ne had taken two
boxes of pills and two bottles Of the Dis
covcry, he was well and had gained In
iesh thirty-siS pounds. Tfial bottles OF
this Grea. Discovery for Consumption
.res ct +, e. Miller's, l2l
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Buffalo Bill aud his Wild Vast show
ara sGoat cn the ocean wavc, hound for
England. Il: is pity thai some arrange
nleot was no. made whereby the show
could be mado to serve some good end
besides satisfying English curiosity. II
Bison 3Yiilie'e cowboys and Indians
were given elbow room-and few
glasses Of Shisky--for instance, they
might be shle to conviucc England Of
her error in treating Ireland SO shabhly.
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Apropos OF the utsseneat 80 frequently
made nov atayE, thar Joho Sherrnens
hoathern trip wsa tos the pacpose OF
looking alter his fcocsa, it ia worthy OF
note tha. be is the originator Of the es-
locking after hin fencss j"
Wide he Vae Secretary OF tao Treasury
he won't hoGie TO aassield, Ohio, for a
few days visit. as soca ~ be reached
there. there was an Influx Of newspaper
correspondents from sl par.s. Some Of
them announced lhat lie veg getting
ready to rnn for governor; Others taa. he
was working up boom for the pre.i-
Dental nosj-stion. Cne OF thesa went
70 hin and boldly assai hin, vhss be
mas doing il Ohio, any how. Is so hap
psned Oh tast dag Sherman hG3 CON
,rscte,. with mar to repair sot.e lcnces
on his place tkas wcge "a suta1!a down
condition. AVID ha accordingly s7}t The
uswsEz per scr!be tt.7t he baG conln hoIae
I" iooS alter his iencee. Gas cay1eepon-
dent published what he saij ara the ex-
pveasiaa w-e ama$ig taGsa ap by the
papesa and sSsrsaI III DYER the !saj. Ia
tact, ihe saying i@s frequently tsar2 uasa
ia the Es.t.4A P.rlii:seet.
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During the t.isa wind Of waes ego
to-day spark from, pass;ng locomotive
set prairie Gre going op its outskirss CT
&i.cheii which spread 10 the fair grounds
and was net stamped out unsh forty Fix
bog s:.lis aud zoo fee. OF isnce hsd been
DESTROYED.